Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pointed to the use of student evaluations in improving the teachers at Harvard. Younger teachers can use the video tapes to watch their own performances. "They don't like to see how bad they are--they don't like to see how they've mutilated their courses," Bok said...
...long the U.S. tended to take Mexico for granted?ignoring it when possible and otherwise treating it with the arrogant condescension usually reserved by big brothers for uppity younger siblings. No longer is that attitude possible or plausible, and one big reason is oil. Since 1972, when geologists drilling into the cactus-studded wasteland of Tabasco state tapped into the gigantic Reforma oil and gas field, Mexico has turned up one immense deposit of petroleum after another. In his state of the union address in early September, López Portillo boasted that Mexico now had proven combined reserves...
...rather than political motives, and mainly from a refusal to become sports apparatchiks. Though the aging couple are in superb physical condition, the Sports Committee of the Council of Ministers reportedly insisted it was time for them to retire from performing, and pressured Protopopov to become a coach of younger skaters. "Oleg is very independent," recalled a top international skating figure. "When he refused, that put him in hot water with the committee...
...living legend Peter Rose, who played out his option and signed with Philadelphia, play conservative, defensive baseball. The Pirates, on the other hand, have assumed the personality of their leader, Willie Stargell. Stargell, 38, is the heart and soul of the team. It was he who kept the younger members of the team loose all year with his clubhouse clowning. It was he who rapped out 32 home runs in just over 400 at bats and got the key hits down the stretch. And it was he who hit the game-winning, three-run homer Tuesday night that gave...
Based on my impressions after living in China for seven weeks this summer, I am convinced that the typical attitude of the Chinese toward religion is not a receptive one. The words religion and superstition are used synonymously. Those who worship openly are all but laughed at by the younger people. Perhaps China's religious policies will change more easily than its people's beliefs...